My daughter was bullied by peers and struggled through classes, but didn’t struggle enough to get much help. Yet in her mind she was failing at everything – friends, school; then she hit rock bottom when her dad and mom were divorced. She became depressed and had migraines and stomach pains – self-harm, suicide, and severe anxiety followed.
After many negative experiences with my child’s school staff, the psychologist said to me in one of the meetings, “It takes a village to raise a child.” I responded, “You are not part of my village.” When the school system is not part of the solution, but part of the oppression with aggressive policies, the school system is PART OF THE PROBLEM… therefore, you are not part of my village.
My son has been saying he hates school for 5 years now. It started in grade 1 when he reflected that his whole class seemed selfish and mean. He said no one listens to the teacher and everyone wants to do what they want to do. I knew he was an empathetic and sensitive child from birth, but now hearing him, in grade 1, feel this unease in the classroom was difficult. Apparently, that class had six or seven high-spirited boys and the constant classroom management was stressful for all the kids. He missed 35 days in grade 1. In…
Our son became ill in the early spring of grade 6. He missed 3 weeks of school when we tried to send him back even though he wasn’t completely healthy. We kept getting phone calls to come and pick him up. We decided to just keep him home until the doctors could diagnose his illness. There was little communication from the school, no work sent home for us to complete with him, and no outreach from his class. He felt like no one at the school cared about him. After physical diagnosis and treatment during the summer, he began grade…
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